1. She's as thin as a stick insect.

2. The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.

3. When I was young I was like a stick insect, then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.

4. One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.

5. My ex-girlfriend is like a stick insect.

6. The stick insect is an insect primarily found in tropical and subtropical areas. It is good at disguising itself as a withered branch or bamboo shoot.

7. The record-breaking stick insect is more than half a metre long with legs outstretched, In the stick insect world, it's the queen of the jungle.

8. He looked like a stick insect with red hair and freckles, but he was brilliant at stopping goals.

9. Indonesian stick insect is the largest insect all over the world, only for its height, there is 1 foot long.

10. A female Macleay specter stick insect pauses on a branch at the Cincinnati Zoo.

11. A female Macleay's specter stick insect pauses on a branch at the Cincinnati Zoo.

12. He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect.

13. Stretching to an extraordinary 22 inches, this newly discovered bug is the longest stick insect in the world.

14. Our magazine-style report is something of a parody of beauty and fashion magazines, with headings on the front like, "Of Course You're Not Hot! "and "The Stick Insect Diet".

15. At sea level, sun - loving lizards abound and a giant tropical stick insect lurks in spiky bushes.